Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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